Let the games begin.  It’s October 8th and I started stage two where I left off from stage one on May 12th.  My GPS said I started in the same place I left off, but my legs, lungs, heart, balance, and stamina started a ways back in the trip.  A long ways back.

But it was a beautiful day to ride.  The sun was shining (I had to use sunscreen for the first time since I left Ohio) the temp. was a cool 60 degrees and the breeze was still asleep.  The roads were mostly smooth and relatively flat.  What more could I ask for.  After about 20 miles I was asking for a motor.

I wasn’t pushing on this first day back but to tell you how slow I was riding, I was passed by a house.  I had never been passed by a house before.  Every house I ever saw along the way I always passed.  I was tooling along on a two lane highway with no shoulder when I saw something very huge in my tiny rear view mirror.  I hugged the side of the road as close as I could when a house drove by me.  To be fair it was only half a house, with the other half in hot pursuit.   I suppose one half was trying to catch the other which may explain why they were moving so fast.  If the house had a garage I would have been tempted to pull in and take a break.

I did ride a little farther than I planned for the first day and made it to Alabama.  I hope I don’t regret my ambition tomorrow.

Alabama State Line

Day 61 stats.  I rode 36.7 miles averaging 12.2 mph, Max speed 16.2 mph, calories= 1547, Ave heart rate=135, (very out of shape), Max heart rate=155, Ascent= 617′, Descent= 604′, Max elevation=36′, Min elevation= -70′ (blub blub)  Riding time was 3:01, Total time on the road= 4:06